The good:- I like the art- very flavorful- even if the aura gets destroyed, the counters remain on the creature- great with doubling season- great with any creature using +1/+1 counters (triskelion or ulasht, the hate seed for example)- unlike equipment, can be also played on the creatures of teammates, in team based games

The bad:- if the creature gets destroyed or stolen or bounced or anything, you lose two cards at once (typical aura problem)- manacost is too high

Or in other words: no tournament quality, but a nice casual card to reload your trike or whatever.

I remember putting this in my first ever deck, a green-white one. It was a beast until my friends figured out that you can just kill the creature. My favorite target was Devoted Retainer. Fear the power of my 7/7 dude who can become 8/8, and then grow steadily over turns! Good times.